On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:36:20AM -0600, Kai Germaschewski wrote:> But when do you need the "clean + rm .config*" behavior? I don't see that > to be such a common case.> > That's why I think two targets are enough, "clean" to remove the files> generated during the build and "distclean" to remove all other extra stuff> to. And just keep mrproper to be an alias for distclean, since that's what> "mrproper" traditionally was (AFAIK, Linus used it that way).

People are used to a mrproper that does NOT delete their editorbackup files and patch rejects. Thats the only arguments againstmrproper=distclean.

The main purpose should be to have a clear and logicaldistingush between the two/three.As it is today people are confused, and there is no consistency - especially between architectures.

I'm fine with a change that moves MRPROPER_{DIRS,FILES} to clean - except.config.But I'm not fine with the current situation where I have to say goodbyeto all my .rej files + xx~ files just to force a full recompile.I will do a new patch tomorrow.